a middle-aged man gazes out from his empty little store, staring at the abandoned winter sea-front and the fjord, when he is interrupted by an unexpected and out of place customer. immediately he notices her similarity to the love who left him decades before, triggering a flood of questions about his life and loves.

This is a collection of short stories based on the theme of separation. set primarily around the oslofjord area of norway. Dealing with diverse subtexts and approached in stylistically varied ways, the 18 stories detail the thoughts and behaviours of a cross section of society, digging deeply into the consciousness of the individual and the harmony of relationships. Including 10 new stories.

Over the remains of a meal a couple have an argument, but this is not its retelling, this is its anatomy - this is the raw functions of a disagreement, from the careless seemingly innocuous origins, through misunderstanding, threats of violence and the power to rekindle the past, to a humble ending. This is an argument without its dialogue.